Tory Lanez jurors hear interview implicating him in Megan Thee Stallion shooting, following conflicting testimony from same witness on the stand

After Kelsey Harris, a key witness in the Tory Lanez trial, testified on Thursday that 'she did not see or could not remember the circumstances of Megan Thee Stallion's shooting, prosecutors released the entirety of an 80-minute taped interview she did three years ago on Friday months – in which Harris was heard vividly recalling that Lanez did indeed fire his gun at Megan.

In the September interview with prosecutors, Harris was overheard describing how she looked up to see Lanez, who was still partially inside their vehicle, shooting Megan, who was driving away.

"I looked up at the second or third shot," Harris said in the currently playing audio. jurors, as reported by Rolling Stone. "You see Tory, he's in the front seat now. I guess he must have jumped in a smooth transition, and he's leaning into the door, it's open, and he's leaning into the door, the right front passenger. He shoots over the door."

Harris further stated in the audio tape that Megan was "walking away when this happened , but by the third or fourth shot, she was facing us, and I would describe it as a deer in the headlights. She added that "the way Tory aimed the gun, it wasn't like straight, it was, like , down, definitely in his direction."

Megan Thee Stallion suffered injuries to her feet which she described to police at the scene in the result of glass fractures, but later said were caused by shots fired from Lanez (legal name: Daystar Peterson). A surgeon who operated on her feet after the altercation confirmed that he removed bullet fragments.

To say Harris was a reluctant witness on the stand would be an understatement. After being shameless about what happened in the September interview, she defiantly refused to repeat much of her testimony during her time on the stand, sometimes pleading the Fifth Amendment, sometimes saying that she did not remember, sometimes directly contradicting her prior statements to prosecutors. Harris made it clear in her testimony that there is no love lost between her and her former friend, but also that she resents the insinuation of Lanez's attorneys that she may have been the one who fired.

Prosecutors asked if Harris is under pressure from the Lanez camp to change or forget his story, which she denied on the stand.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David Herriford changed his stance on the whether prosecutors could play the full tape for jurors as testimony continued this week. Initially, he only allowed snippets, to remind her of her memory, but after Harris continued to contradict her earlier statements or claim she didn't remember the procedure even after playing taped snippets, Herriford made the decision Thursday to allow a full broadcast on Friday. .

One ​​of the few details from his September interview that Harris indicated was accurate during his time at the bar this week was a statement that Lanez had threatened to shoot him, shortly before Megan's murder. Jurors learned more about that when the tape aired on Friday.

"He said, 'My [N-word], I'll shoot you,'" Harris told him Lanez, as heard in the interview. "He said this to me, and he reached out like he was going to grab something, he reached out for the middle console, but he never pulled anything."

Harris said on tape that after filming began - in which Megan became the target , not her , after some mutual taunting about their careers – she saw her friend at the time bleeding. She further testified that Lanez offered her and Megan $1 million each not to tell arriving officers the truth about the attack, according to the lawsuit.